12 weeks into my Asian adventure and approximately 87 mangoes later I decided to finally share some facts and my love for that sweet juicy fruit.
What prompted me to write this is a fun fact shared with me the other day - more mangoes are eaten fresh than any other fruit in the world.
That is more than apples and more than bananas - how cool is that? Native to southeast Asia and India mango trees are also grown in Latin America and Africa and the fruit itself distributed worldwide.
There are over a thousand varieties of mango and most of them are grown in India. At the convenient for me store there are usually about 4 or 5 types of mango, and my favourite is the Elephant Tusk.
They look like this:
When ripe its light yellow flesh has a silky smooth taste, very refreshing and sweet. It is my fruit of choice to add to a tasty breakfast.
The other type I have tried is the Water Lily mango. They look like this:
Also very tasty and very easy for peeling when ripe.
The other type is called Indian mango. They look like this:
Much rounder than the fisrt two types, it has a very different taste, it has a sweet, rich and highly fragrant. Probably too fragrant for me to have often.
The other type is Phoenix. Mangoes looks like this:
This one is much bigger that the rest and I have not tried yet.
For me mango is a tasty tropical way to have my oats in the morning and it's also an essential ingredient of one of the best desserts I've tried here - the mango sticky rice. It's a Thai thing, sticky rice topped with coconut milk and served with a fresh mango. Yum.
And not only they are tasty, mangoes also help to lower cholesterol. the fiber content makes it a wonderful digestive and they are rich in the vitamins A and C.
In Kevin Grise's words and voice - cooool aaaaaazzz.
